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Praise God! Passed my NCLEX with 75 questions! After many weeks of studying, stressing, and eating my anxieties, I'm officially a registered nurse looking forward to starting my new job! Many posts on here personally helped me so here are my top 3 tips: 1. Maintain your support system -- The constant encouragement and prayers of my family and friends always motivated me to continue studying. Also, make sure to enjoy your days, unwinding with and without people rather than intensely studying all the time! My greatest strength came from God, thus prayer and reading His words in the Bible truly gave me peace in my heart. 2. Use 3 study sources max -- I found that scrambling to try to get in content/practice questions from too many different sources/books only left me feeling overwhelmed. Like most people, I used Kaplan and am SO GRATEFUL I did. I always thought my problem was not knowing content, but realized that the NCLEX is truly different from nursing school exams and is not testing your knowledge on pathophysiology, anatomy, etc. So I finished the whole Qbank (average of 60%), questions trainers, etc. and read all the rationales, which really aligned my mind with how to interpret & answer the questions on the NCLEX. My second source was the LaCharity Delegation book, which is a great way to practice application questions AND learn some content. The third source I used off and on were my old nursing school notes, concise study guides I made, notecards, etc. that I had handy and helped me refresh my memory. I had the Elsevier book with a lot of content, but did not use it. 3. Make a goal for each day in advance -- Whether it's answering 50 practice questions or getting through a chapter of content, write it down and make sure it is checked off at the end of the day! Basically keep yourself accountable and even reward yourself after! These tips are not anything new I'm sure, but are what truly kept me going :) Remember, it is no coincidence that you finished nursing school and now have the opportunity to study for this licensure exam. There is a greater purpose as you add R.N. after your name and serve as healing hands to those that need them!! Good luck everyone!!

Just took mine! Good luck for all you taking it later today and tomorrow! Prayers are powerful :)

Thank you guys so much!! This will be really helpful when I take my NCLEX this week :)

Mine is this Wednesday too! Thanks for this encouraging post & good luck to everyone! :)

Thank you so much!! This clarified things for me :)

Hello! I have learned different ways to determine the HR from an EKG strip, but still am a bit confused, especially as I'm studying for the NCLEX. What way do you use to determine the rate? Thank you :)

Hm, did you answer all the questions using in the Kaplan Qbank, question trainers, etc.?

Congrats!! I'm taking mine next week so reading this was very encouraging (: Good luck on the job search!

I'm not sure what you mean by the "most recent study plan", but YES! The Lacharity book is definitely beneficial and even helps review a lot of content :)

I'm also waiting on my ATT! I'm a little worried that I won't get a test date before my start date. Does anyone know what happens if I can't get my license before my start date?

Congrats on your position! I'll be in the Surgical ICU. How about you? & that would be awesome if you could let me know what they say. Thanks!

Hello! I'll be moving to North Carolina this summer for my new grad nurse position at Duke University Hospital. I've been looking for apartments around Durham/Raleigh/Chapel Hill. Does anyone have any recommendations or suggestions for relatively safe and friendly neighborhoods? Or which of those three areas would be best? Thank you (: I hope this question helps others relocating as well!